NiteFury

An Artix-7 FPGA with its own DDR3 RAM - right in your laptop. Convenient for developing PCIe-based designs or using as a super co-processor

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NiteFury is the
PicoEVB‘s
(slightly) bigger, beefier cousin. It’s an M.2 FPGA dev board that
includes on-board DDR3 RAM which lets you work with PCI Express at
incredible rates from inside your laptop or desktop. You could also
use NiteFury as an FPGA co-processor. Let the Xilinx Artix-7 handle
your encryption or act as a hardware-level encoder/decoder for speedy
workflows. It’s your FPGA, design what you like.

RHS Research has also teamed up with another company to provide
NiteFury at an amazing campaign price.

Features

Giant FPGA: NiteFury features the largest Artix-series part that
Xilinx makes. It has 6x the processing power of PicoEVB. It uses the
Xilinx A200T FPGA at just under 1000 GMAC/s.

Popular form factor: NiteFury fits in the M.2 M key slot, which
is popular in laptops today. This slot features 4x PCIe for high
bandwidth (2 GB/s).

Like PicoEVB but…

More powerful: NiteFury features the largest Artix-series part that
Xilinx makes. It has 6x the processing power of PicoEVB.

More memory: NiteFury has infinitely more memory than PicoEVB! NiteFury
comes with up to 1 GB (8 Gb) of DDR3.

Block diagram

DSP processing metrics (DSP slices)

Current Status

The hardware design is pretty much complete and ready for
manufacturing. The last challenge remaining is cooling! A massive FPGA
requires some help on this front, so RHS Research is developing a
custom, low-profile cooler (6 mm). Be sure to sign up for updates
above to be notified of progress and when the campaign is live.